Check-In – Day 27

[samuraiter]

Three times three times three is twenty-seven. Since three is a lucky number, how lucky is twenty-seven? Makes me wonder. ... What have you been doing?

— Thinking. Maybe a little, maybe a lot.
— Writing.
— Planning and / or researching.
— Editing.
— Sending things to the beta.
— Posting!
— Relaxing, taking a break, etc.
— Other stuff-ing. Look at the comment.

Question: Do you prefer to go by page count or word count?

Comments

[autobotscoutriella]

I completed my fluffbingo challenge! Absurdly pleased with myself on that front, though realistically it shouldn't have taken me quite as long as it did to write five short fics. Also started in on some disconnected scenes that will one day become a fic and did a whole lot of thinking about something I might start drafting tonight.

I prefer to go by word count, just because my page counts get all weird due to my preference for double-spacing (though these days it's mostly 1.5 instead of fully double-spaced). I've done too many academic papers over the years, so single-spaced drafts just look wrong to me.

[enemytosleep]

Man this has been a killer month IRL. Fandom fun stuffs have been taking an unfortunate backseat.

[linaewen]

Planning and researching today, since I got an idea for a new story and I wanted to make sure it will work. Haven't worked on any WIPs, but March is going to be a month for trying my hand at some one shots for a challenge that's going on. I'll get back to my WIPs eventually!

I go by word count, since pages don't have as much meaning for me on my computer.

[lady_katana4544]

Doing a lot of thinking about writing, but not much writing is actually happening bc focus went elsewhere.

[mistressofmuses]

If threes are lucky, then yesterday I managed a third day in a row of writing at least a LITTLE bit on the same WIP! That's pretty small potatoes, but after weeks of not doing much at all, it feels good to have managed to work on it at all. And all three nights I had to kind of force myself to do it, but pushed through and then was very happy I did, so I hope it's the start of a habit.

[doranwen]

Hee, cube numbers. The math teacher in me loves cube numbers.

Last night I was wiped out and didn't have the energy to write anything, but tonight I've been adding bits and pieces to my WIP still as I have time. A bunch of the time was spent researching a realistic location (it's set in Toronto and I've never been there so I'm relying on Google maps) for the scene.

Oh, word count, definitely. I write in a text editor - there is no such thing as page count there. Even copying to a Writer doc to do a more accurate word count (because my text editor treats apostrophes and hyphens as if they were spaces), I still don't pay much attention to the pages, other than "wow, this fic ended up that many pages!" But it's not like I have a frame of reference - all other fics I read I think in terms of word count, so that's my yardstick for measuring the lengths of my fics. (To the point that when I wrote a post-apocalyptic AU of the Boxcar Children story for my Yuletide assignment, I used an e-book of the 1924 and 1942 versions each to do word counts on them for comparison purposes. My story ended up slightly longer than the simplified 1942 version, but well short of the word count for the original 1924 book.)